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A 160 tile American set at a weight that moves between houses, with the full breakdown down to the 6 blanks kept back as spares.
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There are two ways to make a mahjong set portable, and only one of them is any good. The bad way is to shrink the tile: a 20 mm set fits anywhere and is harder to read for everyone at the table. The good way is to keep the tile full sized and control the weight, which is what this set does.
For a group that meets at a different house each week, the second approach is the one that survives contact with reality. Nobody enjoys a set they cannot read.
6 blank tiles look like packing material on a spec sheet. On a set that travels they are the difference between a game and a keepsake, because the tile that falls out in a car is not coming back and single tiles cannot be reordered.
The habit that goes with them is counting the tiles back in at the end of an evening. It takes a minute and it is the only reliable defence against a set quietly becoming incomplete.
108 suit tiles across the 3 suits, 16 winds, 12 dragons, 8 flowers, 10 jokers and 6 blanks. The jokers are what make it American; the National Mah Jongg League card assumes them and a set without them plays a different game.
More choice than most ranges offer, which is useful mainly for telling sets apart in a group. It also means a set can be matched to a room rather than accepted as it comes.
Damp cloth, nothing stronger. Store the tiles contained. Keep the set out of a hot car through a summer, which does more damage than a year of play.
| Tiles | 160 |
|---|---|
| Breakdown | 108 suits, 16 winds, 12 dragons, 8 flowers, 10 jokers, 6 blanks |
| Material | Acrylic |
| Finishes | 13 |
| Weight | 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) |
| Age | 18 and over |
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Play tonight
Tiles, and everything the case holds, in one box. Unwrap it, deal a hand, and your table is running.
The sound alone
Shuffling a real set is half the pleasure. Weight in your hand, that clack across the table: you can hear it before you see it.
Yours for twenty years
A set outlasts the group it started with. Choose one you'll still want on the table when someone else is dealing.
The one you can still read at the end of an evening. Shrinking tiles to 20 mm makes a set fit anywhere and makes it harder for everyone at the table, so weight is the better thing to control. This one is 160 acrylic tiles at 2.5 kg, which moves between houses without a struggle, and 6 blanks travel with it as spares. On a set that leaves the house, those spares matter more than any other detail.
Acrylic holds up well to the handling a set actually gets. It takes the knocks of a car boot without marking the way printed faces do, and the engraving stays legible rather than wearing off over a few years of play. It is also light, which is how a full American set of 160 tiles comes in at 2.5 kg. A barely damp cloth is all it needs, and nothing stronger than that.
Worth judging a set on its contents rather than on where it came from. Count the breakdown: 108 suit tiles, 16 winds, 12 dragons, 8 flowers and 10 jokers is what American play runs on, with blanks on top as spares. This set lists 160 tiles including 6 blanks. Then look at the material, since acrylic survives handling that printed surfaces do not, and single tiles cannot be reordered when one goes missing.
The name on the box tells you less than three lines of the specification. First, whether jokers are included, since the annual National Mah Jongg League card assumes them. Second, whether spare blanks come with it, because a set quietly becomes incomplete the first time a tile disappears. Third, the material, which decides how the faces look in 5 years. This one answers with 10 jokers, 6 blanks and acrylic throughout.
A mahjong set is handled more than almost anything else in the house: every tile passes through four pairs of hands, several times a game.
That is what we select for. Tiles that read clearly from the far side of the table, edges that stay clean, and a case that still closes after a few seasons of being carried around.
Sets differ in ways that only show at the table: the weight of a tile in the hand, how a crak reads from three seats away, whether the case survives the trip to a friend’s house.
When we have the figures, we publish them: tile count, tile size, weight and material. When we do not have one, we leave it out rather than guess.
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